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VOL. XXVII—NO. 15
WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, January 27, 1928
WILL MEEI TUESDAY
IN TTTLE BATTLE
Another Step Will Be Made for
the Tri-Normal Championship
Game at Whatcom Gym, Wed.
SAVAGES ARE VETS
Cheney, Like Ellensburg, Makes
Big Scores in Games; Present
Dope Gives Cheney the Edge.
Encountering another obstacle in
its race for the Tri-Normal Cham­pionship
the Vikings will meet the
Cheney Savages, Wednesday evening
in the Whatcom High Gym, at 8:00
o'clock.
Under the tutelage of A. C. Wood-ard
a new basketball mentor in Nor­mal
circles, the Savages are as yet
an unknown quantity. Having played
several games like potential cham­pions,
their strong five man defense
holding opponents to few tallies,
while they themselves were running
up top heavy scores, the Savages
looked to be a title winning outfit.
In other contests, however, their de­fensive
play was ragged and they
were scored upon at will. The Wash­ington
State Frosh, particularly,
broke through and won by a large
score.
' The members of the Savage quin­t
e t are mostly veterans, West,
Hames and Clift being on last year's
team. All played regularly last
year and are fast clever ball hand­lers.
Moore, a forward of the Cheney
championship team of 1925-26, is
holding a forward berth and has con­tributed
heavily in the scoring of the
Savage five. Moore attended Bel­lingham
last quarter so will be
watched with interest by those who
knew him. Bennef is a new man at
the Eastside school and plays center,
while Duvall and Fishback are play­ing,
good games in supporting roles.
Both the latter arc experienced men
and were on the squad last year.
The Viking squad is putting in a
hard week of practice, polishing off
team play and emphasizing basket
shooting. On the late road trio the
Normalites were woefully weak on
goal throwing but seem out of their
"slump" in practice lately.
The team to oppose the Cheney
basketeers will be picked from Kep-linger,
Harper McClurken, forwards;
Thorsen, Erickson, centers; Benson,
Clark, Jewell, and Isaacson, guards.
'Snaps!" Snaps, Snappy
Snapshot Shooter for
a Snappier Annual
Fisher Attends
Seattle Meeting
Normal Prexies
President Fisher attended a meet­ing
in Seattle at which the boards
of trustees and presidents of all
Washington Normals were present.
Various topics pertaining to the work
of three institutions were brought
up. A good deal of the discussion
was on the training of the junior
high school teachers and a study is
to be made of the training the pres­ent
teachers have and the standards
that should be set up for teachers of
such schools;
The raising of the standard for
teachers' diplomas was discussed and
the granting of the elementary di­ploma
based on two years work, good
for a period of two years and not re­newable
was favored. At present,
a diploma may be received after two
years work which entitles the pos­sessor
to a five-year renewal, which
way be converted into a life diploma.
Under the new plan, a two-year pre­paration
would be good for two years
only and another year would be re­quired
to make the student a full-fledged
teacher. A student could,
however, teach two years and then
come back to finish the three year
requirement. In short, the standard
would be-s raised f rora -/a minimum
two years to a minimum three years.
Whether or not the summer ses­sion
should be made a six week term
rather than the present full quarter
was brought. up for discussion, but
was not settled. Some schools fav­ored
the idea and the subject will
be brought up again at the next an­nual
meeting.
Snap snap—ginger snaps, snap
classes, snap-snap your hair's cut—
snappy snapshots for the Klipsun.
That's what Roy Arnett, snapshot
editor, is howling for. His collection
at present is^ interesting and fairly
representative but not numerous
enough for Ms soaring ambitions,
since this year two1 extra pages will
be devoted to interesting pictures of
school life, in the annual.
An annual in its fundamental pur­pose
should reflect the school life of
the students. No better chance is
given for the editors to perform their
duty than in the section of kodak
pictures. Turn 'em in! See your
picture in print! Snap the girl­friend
when her. nose is shining—the
boy-friend when he needs a haircut—
the faculty member when he fears
the camera most—honestly and tru­ly,
the Klipsun staff promises you
they will appear—if really clear, for
the boai;d of censors is big-hearted.
Ellensburg Puts Crimpi in Viking
Title Aspirations by Decisive Win
Displaying a woefully weak offense, which was able to net but one
field goal, the Bellingham Normal Vikings received a sound drubbing
at the hands of the Ellensburg team last night at the Fairhaven «gym.
With the reversal the local cagers received a severe setback to any Tri-
Normal title hopes which they had been nursing. The final score of the
contest was 1 7 to 6. - -
Throughout the game the powerful Wildcat quintet functioned with
a smoothness of an experienced team. Both teams had difficulty in
locating the basket, but the easterners maintained a lead which at no
time was threatened. Individually, they were a team of fast men with
exceptional dribbling and floor ability..
The showing made by Bellingham was disappointing to say the least.
The passing was wild and any semblance of team work was not in
evidence. Inability to penetrate the Ellensburg defense contributed most
to the Viking downfall.. Both teams played a close checking game as is
evidenced by the score.
Junior Messenger
of Training School
MakesAppearance
"The Junior Messenger," semi-an­nual
publication of the Eighth grade
training school class, appeared with
che end of the semester this week.
An advance copy presented to the
Messenger displays much work and
presents a pleasing appearance.
The "Messenger" this semester, is
a twenty-four page pamphlet, J)Vfcx
0% inches, which greets the reader
with a photograph of a reporter's
snow figUt on the campus, xhe ar­rangement
of the paper is carefully
pianned witli aim to give the news
oi the semester, in an organized man­ner.
Ihe divisions are: .Editorials,
assemblies, activities, news irom the
grades, poet's corner, story hour, and
aiumni notes.
In the main, the editorial staff was
responsible for the edition of the
•Junior Messenger, with the exception
of the details of proof-reading and
make-up. Weekly meetings of the edi­torial
council were held, at which
times the policies of the paper were
discussed and summaries of work
done were made by reporters. At
these meetings the stories of fam­ous
editors and reporters were also
discussed, so that a keener insight
could be had into the work of a news­paper.
These meetings were con­ducted
by the editor, John Shiels.
The work done in connection with
the paper, according to Miss Bertha
Crawford, training teacher in the
eighth grade who supervised the
work, has been very beneficial in
English, expression, and composition
work. A regular newspaper style
was used in the writing of stories,
and usually all written reports of
assemblies were done in news form.
In addition to the regular news
items,, the paper contains many
poems, prominent among these being
"Harvest Thoughts" by the eighth
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Y.W.G.A. MEMBERS
SPONSOR INSTITUTE
FOR BIBLE LEARNING
Satler and Campbell Lead Bible
Institute; Meetings Appreciated
Sunday Meetings Interest Many
The meeting Sunday afternoon of
the Bible Institute sponsored by the
Y. W. C. A. of the Normal school
closed a successful program of meet­ings
and also the twenty-first conse­cutive
meeting of the institute in
this school.
Dr. Georgia Satler of Seattle, a
well known Bible Institute teacher,
led the main discussions, aided by
Mrs. Campbell, also of Seattle.
Dr. Georgia Satler, of Seattls, who
conducts Bible teachings in leading
towns of the Northwest, gained much
favor with the Y. W. C. A., workers
here this time, as she has previously
Miss Dorothy Bidlake, a recently re­turned
missionary from Kansu, Chi­na,
was unable to attend the meet­ings
here because of conflicting pro­gram.
Although the girls missed
Miss Bidlake whom they regard as
a very interesting speaker, they ap­preciated
the opportunity of becom­ing
acquainted with Mrs. Campbell,
also of Seattle.
Interest Taken
Meetings opened Thursday after­noon,
and were held every afternoon
and evening until Sunday afternoon.
The Y. W. C. A. girls, other students
of the Normal and people residing in
Bellingham attended :the. meetings
and each one gained individual bene­fits.
The discussion Sunday afternoon
on "Group Prayer", delivered by Mrs.
Campbell, carried a valuable aspect
for everyone. Dr. Satler gave an in­teresting
account of a trip to Los
Angeles this summer with entering
students of the Bible Institute there,
in faithful -'William". She noted
many experiences that had been af­fected
outstandingly by the will of
God.
Georges Enesco, Rumanian Violinist
Pleases Audience Tuesday, Jan. 24
The appearance of Georges Enesco,
Roumanian violinist Tuesday even­ing
in the Christian church, was an
event that will long be remembered
by those of the capacity audience
who attended. Hailed as a real mas­ter
of the instrument, Enesco gave
a superb exhibition of the art in
violin playing and held his audience
as few artists have ever done here
in a program that was admirably
suited to his technique.
Appearing in the second number
of the 1927-28 Musical Artists course,
sponsored by the Normal and the
Bellingham Women's Music club,
Enesco easily lived up to the high
standard set by his predecessors dur­ing
the last few years and set a new
high level for performance on the
violin.
The artistes program, composed
largely of numbers from modern
composers, Avas excellently selected,
and allowed full play to Enesco's
type of artist. ''The opening num:
her, Nardim's "Sonata in D Major"
immediately won the heart of the
audience, and\ while slightly heavy
ofr a student-public crowd, was gen­erously
applauded and encored. The
third movement of the sonata es­pecially
the larghetto, proved beyond
a doubt the famous European's mas­tery
of tone and feeling.
Chausson's "Pome", Enesco' second
number while, too, of the heavier
type of selection saw him reach his
full power as a master of technique.
He'gradually-increased in effective­ness
in his third group composed of
Corelli's "Fplies d' Espagne" and the
'•Introduction and Cappricioso" of
Saint Saens. He was recalled for two
numbers and was called back for two
encores in which he reached the
peak of his performance. The second
of these encores "Going Home" from
Dvorak's New World Symphony, was
especially well received.
In his closing number, Sarasate's
"'Zieguncrweisen", Enesco combined
liis talents to give a masterful fin­ishing
touch to the whole. program
and succeeded in reaching the height
of his power. \
ORIENTAL PROBLEMS
ARE EXPLAINED BY
CHINESE LECTURER
Major Huang, Militarist, Diplomat,
and Speaker, Gives Outline of
Present Eastern Conditions.
EVENTSJALENDAR
Subject of Departmental Clubs
Holding All-school Affairs is
Hashed Over but Left in Raw.
WHAT'S TO BE DONE?
Plans for Re-organization ' Still
in Balance; Discussion Results
in no Definite Action by Council.
In two appearances at the Normal
during his brief stay in Bellingham,
Tien Lai Huang, officer of the Nat­ionalistic
army, and authority on
Chinese affairs, brought out many
hew, little-known facts concerning
the condition of China today. Mon­day
night, before an audience of ap­proximately
800, Huang spoke on the
subject "The Present Condition of
China", favorably impressing his
audience with the material contained
in the lecture.
Tuesday morning, before the up­per
grades of the training school,
Huang spoke of the. children of his
nation, telling of their movements to
better the country by public and per­sonal
health education, by anti-cos­metic
societies among the girls and
by education of better feeling to­wards
all nations and mankind.
Opening his first address with an
explanation of the Chinese customs,
culture, art, and race, Huang stated
that the culture of his land is 5,000
years old, that the present day cus­toms
of the people are the derivitives
of these ages of writing and art, and
that until comparatively recently the
Chinese regarded themselves as the
only civilized people.
The American conception of the
Chinese and the American ideas of
the Eastern race are, according to
the lecturer, as amusing as they are
unreasonable. The American, accord­ing
to the Chinese, has given China
the Standard Oil Company; the
American Tobacco Co.; and the mis­sionaries.
On the other hand, the
Orientals have donated to Western
civilization laundrymen, chop suey
restaurants, and students. Both are
wrong Huang asserted.
The students occupy a prominent
place in the government of China,
Huang said. Leaders in the revo­lution
of 1911 were students and the
present day good roads movement,
public health campaigns, and other
such lines of endeavor are, in the
main, conducted by students.. Last
year over 7,000 miles of paved roads
were built by these students and a
highway from Peking to Berlin by
way of the Gobi desert a distance of
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MARY LEWIS WILL
NOT APPEAR HERE
Mary Lewis, soprano with the
Metropolitan Opera Company of New
York, originally scheduled to appear
as the third number of the Musical
Artist's course on February 1, has
cancelled her engagement and Avill
not sing in Bellingham this year.
This action is the result of being
called from her concert tour by ,the
Metropolitan Opera Company which
has required her to cancel all en­gagements
north of San Francisco.
President Fisher states that an­other
similar number will be substi­tuted.
It has not been definitely de­cided
who will appear in place of
Miss Lewis. Florence Austral, Aus­tralian
soprano, is mentioned as a
possible choice.
At a boresomely inefficient meeting
of the Student Organization Council
Monday night, the calendar of events
for the quarter was ratified, after
having been delayed three weeks. The
right of departmental clubs to hold
all-school affairs was mildly de­bated,
and the meeting adjourned
with nothing accomplished save the
ratification of a hacked-up calendar,
. and the rejection of all plans for the
reorganization of- the council tiself.
The calendar for the winter- quar­ter,
as it now stands, much different
from its first form, is as follows:
February 3—Freshman Class party.
February 4—Campire Girls.
February 10—Vanadis Bragi.
February 11 —• Alkisiah; Women's
League.
February 17—Thespians: Gavel and
-Pulpit.
February 18—Upper Classmen.
February 24 and 25—Drama Club
play.
March 2—W. A. A.
March 3—Edens Hall.
March 9 and 10—Artist Course num­bers.
March 10—Philo banquet.
Joel Gudmundson, chairman of the
calendar committee, after making a
complaint concerning the manner in
which the clubs submit request for
dates, moved that a committee be
appointed to draw up a form of re­quest.
These reqeusts, when filled
out by the clubs, will be turned in to
the Council the last week of the
quarter proceeding that in which the
date falls. The motion was passed,
and Harry Hale, Lenore White, and
Vernon Vine were appointed as mem­bers
of the committee.
The question was raised by Clif­ford
Duncan representative of the
Social Science club, regarding the
right of departmental clubs to hold
all-school affairs. Following an ex­planation
by Miss Rosene, in which
it was brought out that clubs desir­ing
to hold such affairs could appeal
to the faculty committee for per­mission,
the motion was killed.
A roll call vote as to the ratifica­tion
of the three plans for the re­organization
of the council, revealed
fourteen clubs against any plan, with
three clubs splitting their votes be­tween
two of the suggestions. Presi­dent
Raymond Bright instructed the
present committee to continue the
work done as to reorganization, and
turned over to it the suggestion sub­mitted
by the Freshman class, which
as yet is the only substitute sug­gested
for the renounced plans. *
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Mary C . Woodbridge a former
student of the Bellingham Normal,
who graduted in 1926, is now a part­ner
in the Garrott and Woodbridge
Book Store, on University Way, Se­attle.
"Is Progress A Delusion?" Is
To Be Will Durant's Subject
The Fate of Civilization to be Openly Discussed bjr
Well Known Philosopher Who Appears at Normal
School as Outstanding Lecture Course Number.
Noted Authority
on Australia to
Lecture Tuesday
Miss Anne Abel Henderson will
speak in Tuesday's assembly on
Australasia and American relations
to those countries. Miss Henderson
is well fitted for the talk as she has
studied her subject thoroughly and
has talked in the Australasian coun­tries
a number of times.
She has been a faculty member of
the following -well known schools:
Kansas ' State University, Cornell
University,. Yale University, as well
as having written a number of books.
Her "The History of Events Result­ing
in Indian Consolidation West of
the Mississippi," Avon the Justin
Winsor prize in 1906.
• Her talk should be of vital inter­est
when one considers that the
march of civilization has ever been
west in white countries and the only
white countries west of the United
States are the Australasian group.
The Australasian people have done
much and are still progressing rapid­ly.
They have progressed to about
the same level as Canada in approxi­mately
one-half the time Canada has.
The future cities of this newest of
all continents have been carefully
planned and the population, contrary
to general opinion is not one that is
backward or of convict type. New
Zealand already produces about one-half
the wool used in the United
States. The country is rich in water
and minei'al power and its climate is
said to rival our imaginations of a
paradise.
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CLIFFORD NEWDALL
MAKES HIS DEBUT
On January 10, Clifford Newdall,
formei'ly an instructor at the Bel­lingham
Normal, made his debut in
the role of Faust, at the Century
Theater, the largest in New York
City.
Mr. Newdall scored distinct suc­cess,'
and the New York critics were
exceedingly kind to him. He re­ceived
special praise from Samuel
Chotzinoff of the New York World,
one of the severest of critics.
Chotzinoff especially commended him
upon his artistic acting and for the
magnetism of his personality, and
stage presence.
In a letter which Miss Olive Edens
received from Newdall, after the suc­cessful
opening, he mentioned the
fact that Miss Gunther, who taught
in the Industrial Arts department
last year, Hprtense Yule, a former
Normal student, and Miss Frank
also a former instructor here, were
in the audience at his first appear­ance.
The company will play in New
York for six weeks. They have en­gagements
in Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Chicago.
Mr. Newdall plans to be in Bel­lingham
this summer.
Freshmen Receive Lurid "Earmarks"
When They Journey to Points South
About the school two individuals
walk whose names are politely, as
well as diplomatically withheld, for
reasons which will later be evident.
However both of the FRESHMEN
are easily distinguished by several
outstanding earmarks of catastrophe.
The masculine features of both are
now, as they have been for four days,
adorned with looks bordering on the
far side of sheepishness combined
with deep lines of hunger, hardship,
and privations. In addition to these
evidences of disaster, the larger of
the two wears, on his right eye, or
perhaps it's his left, a badge of deep
distress, to say nothing of mourning.
Having here related the conse­quences
of the dire folly upon which
the foolhardy boys embarked, a his­tory
of the case may not be out of
order, so:
Feeling the call of the open road,
these two aforementioned students,
upon notice to themselves of approx­imately
an hour, set out for Sockeye,
Clayton Bay, and points south,
among which are Seattle and Mercer
Island. Herein lies the tragedy, for
alas, the destinations were unfortu­nately
reached.
More than this however, we do not
know. How the deepty, darkly hued
eye-came into being is not definitely
known. Why three days beginning
Saturday morning were needed to
consummate the journey is also a
mystery. And as. to the various (as
they must have been) incidents of
the trip we can only hazard a guess.
This Friday night, in the Normal
School Auditorium, Dr. Will Durant
will give a lecture, "Is Progress A
Delusion?" as a regular number on
this season's lecture course.
Will Durant has had varied exper­iences
and comes as one well pre­pared
to discuss questions dealing
with philosophy. Dr. Durant has been'
an instructor of philosophy in Colum­bia
University, the school where he
received his Ph.D. degree
The Fate Of Civilization
What is the fate of our civiliza­tion?
What are the arguments for
the reality of progress? Will Durant
will answer these questions and also
tell of recent pessimistic opinions
dealing with 'Ts Progress a Delu­sion?"
Is man ascending? Dr.
man, but is man ascending? Dr.
Will Durant doesn't claim to be able
to absolutely answer these questions,
but lie has done a great deal of re­search
work and feels that he has
the right to discuss such interroga­tions.
He comes as a man with an
open mind.
"Dr. Durant, like the late William
James is virtually the ideal of an
educated man. So lightly and grace­fully
does his knowledge sit upon
him that instead of crushing, it
humanizes him, to our great joy and
profit." Henry Forman in the N. Y.
Times.
V K V N OFF
F i l l DMG HRST
M TOP OF YEAR
Normal Hoopers Drop Games over
Week-end to U. of W. Frosh
and Fast St. Martin's Rangers.
Getting off to a left-footed start
in collegiate competition when their
offense failed to function properly,
the Yiking varsity hoopsters dropped
two games over the week-end on
their first road trip of the year—one
to the University of Washington
Freshmen 38-25, Friday, and the
other at Seattle to St Martin's col­lege,
Saturday, at Lacey, 25-17. The
team as a whole played mediocre bell
and appeared badly off form show­ing
an entire reversal of form from
that of two weeks before, when the
fast Heater Glove five, of Seattle,
was easily beaten.
The Frosh encounter started off
with a bang, but before it had- gone
far, the Husky Babes were in the
lead. With Rutherford and' Twilr
liger leading the offense, the Year­lings
had little difficulty in main­taining
a safe advantage all though
the contest. The Vikings, after the
first few minutes played sluggishly,
failing to register consistently from
the field and giving a very ordinary
exhibition. Substitutions failed to
work any miracles and the Frosh
could not be headed, scoring frequent­ly.
No Normal player could be said
to be outstanding.
Bellingham (25) Freshmen (38)
Keplinger 4 F. . White 4
McClurken 4 .... F. .... Terwilliger 11
Thorsen 10 ...... 'C. .... Rutherford 10
Benson G. ........ Galbraith 2
Jewell ;;.. G. Neff 4
Substituions—Bellingham: Isaacson
(4) for Jewell; Clarke for Benson;
Harper for McClurken. Frosh: Col­lins
for Neff, Tounsan (5) for Ruth­erford;
Davenbour (2) for Townsan.
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New Library Leaves
Floor Space Vacant
With the oj)ening of the new li­brary
building the floor space now
used by the library will be available
for other purposes. The Bureau of
Research has been requested to sur­vey
the situation and classroom
changes will be made, following the
suggestions of the departments, that
will seem to be of the 'greatest bene-':
fit. to the school.
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